anorexiaFT {cg} | R Documentation |
AnorexiaFT Data Set in the cg package
Description
A data frame used to illustrate the cg package. It has a Paired Samples / Paired Difference layout.
Usage
data(anorexiaFT)
Format
A 17-by-2 data frame from an study of young female anorexia
patients. It is a subset of the anorexia
data frame
included in the MASS package. Out of the three groups there,
only the factor level FT
group makes up the anorexiaFT
data frame. The endpoint is Weight in pounds (lbs), FT
represents "Family Therapy" treament, and the paired levels are
PreWt
Patient weight before treatment
PostWt
Patient weight after treatment
See anorexia
in the MASS package for additional description.
Details
The anorexiaFT
data set that comes with the cg package
is in groupcolumns
format for the
prepareCGPairedDifferenceData
call. Each column
represents a group, and each row represents an individual patient, or
experimental unit. Each observation in a row that spans the two group
columns are paired individual response or outcome values.
The purpose of the study was to evaluate effects of multiple treatments on weight as a marker for anorexia, and to compare their relative effectiveness.
See anorexia
in the MASS package for
references and more details.
Note
Contact cg@billpikounis.net for bug reports, questions, concerns, and comments.
See Also
anorexia
, prepareCGPairedDifferenceData
Examples
data(anorexiaFT)
str(anorexiaFT)